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Comment by quadrature | Hacker News Reader

This is a bit of a pet peeve of mine, but that banner image is 10 megabytes, it can be compressed down to 2mb without any perceptible loss of quality. Heck it could probably be shrunk further if you can accept a bit more loss because most of the image is blurry and noisy anyway.

heres a compressed version: https://www.dropbox.com/s/bw606t7znouxpj1/photo-141847963101...

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Good catch.

That is ironic on so many levels.

I mean there is even a section on "UX: Bandwidth"...

Maybe the author should brush up on image compression best practices and consider adding a subsection on images and other media.

EDIT: Realized my previous wording was probably a bit too harsh considering the author is still relatively new to web development.

Hard not to catch it when its loaded in progressively on a 20Mbps connection :P. Websites are way too fat these days.

10 meg?

4k is all the rage now on mobile.

just taken a chunk out of someone's download quota with that nice background!

I've been thinking of developing a proxy that compresses responses and forwards them to you, specifically to handle sites not optimized for mobile. There are already solutions like this but I think a self hosted version is what people need.

This one has been around a long time:

http://www.khelekore.org/rabbit/

thanks!, That will definitely help a lot. I was thinking of using squid proxy and writing some custom handlers, but this helps a lot.

Ironically the original banner image doesn't even load for me on iOS Safari.

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